[7.1-RELEASE-p2 amd64] NFS mount in fstab hangs during mountcritremote execution

[Mel]

On Tuesday 10 February 2009 01:34:47 Arjan van der Oest wrote:
> Hi Mel,
>
> Sorry for not getting back to you earlier, I have been out of the office
> for some time...
>
> > Does this one also have a link UP message after nfs mounting? If not,
>
> then
>
> > there's your culprit: network isn't up at mountcritremote time. You
>
> should
>
> > mark it 'late' in fstab
>
> The UP message came more or less at the same time. Marking it late fixed
> the problem, still leaving me puzzled why the NFS mounts work without
> problem on identical machines but not in this one. Anyhow, since it's
> not a critical fs, the late option works fine.

There's 2 scenarios for late NFS mounting:
- local named: named gets started after mountcritremote, fixable with 
resolv.conf that has an additional nameserver or populate /etc/hosts.
- slow network card and/or DHCP server causing the network card to be down or 
without IP address / invalid resolv.conf at mountcritremote. Not really 
fixable.

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.